Comments on: History lessons — forgotten

By: bvw

bvw — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:16:37 +0000

Sabba, even when you sleep you are wise.
Why did Google note Veteran’s Day (US) today with WWI era helmets?

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:32:49 +0000

I just realized that the reason that I did that was that the Go;den Oldie on Dry Bones was from December 7, 1978.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:04:44 +0000

OOPS, I must have really been asleep. Sorry for being a month early.

Actually, December 7, 1941 was 14 Kislev 5707 which will be November 24 this year. However, the point about memory and history still applies. We will see in a month if the leftists try to bury December 7 in the same black hole as the Arab riots of 1929 and the Intifadas and the war that they have been waging against the Jews ever since 1917.

By: Sabba Hillel

Sabba Hillel — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:26:35 +0000

Consider the way that the media here in the United States will probably ignore the anniversary today (December 7). After all, if they can forget September 11 and the history of the Arabs for the entire 20th century …..

By: Ed Hausman

Ed Hausman — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:19:14 +0000

It is incredible that this Abbas, leader of a people that was cobbled together just a few years ago, projects his own historical inadequacy on us, whose history was originally used by Western civilization as the History of the World.

Not only literature and archaeology, but even genetics, place us in Western Asia right at the beginning, cousins to the Armenians and the Kurds, the other ancient peoples of the Fertile Crescent and Black Sea.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:42:39 +0000

Lucky for you, Soccerdad, that you’re over at Meryl’s weblog for a while because she has readers like me who can correct her misperceptions. She’s grateful for it, too, she just pretends not to be.

Anyway, your misconception of the day is that the history you cite is relevant. Some time ago I posted on this weblog what Meryl calls the Exception Clause but I, with due modesty, suggested should properly be termed the Bensky Corollary To Absolutely Everything. (qv)

At some point I will reveal to world that will exeperience dawning understanding the Bensky Bifurcated System of Middle Eastern Political Analysis. Today I’ll merely mention two components:

First, the true intentions of Arabs are indicated in their softest words. What they say to each other and what they do doesn’t matter.

Second, as far as Israel’s interests and rights are concerned, history began this morning. What anyone did before that is irrelevant.

In contradistinction to heartless people like Meryl, I am dripping with sympathy for the poor Palestinians. They are stuck in refugee camps sixty years later and my heart goes out to them equally as much as it goes out to the eastern Poles, Sudeten Germans, Indian and Pakistani Moslems and Hindus, and the millions of other displaced people who were allowed by their own people to languish in camps.

I think the Palestinians deserve that much.